A few weeks ago we went to the Library and they had 2 habitats set up for butterflies. They had just emerged from their Chrysalis and were flying around. Hannah was completely enthralled. For her birthday we decided to get her a habitat. It comes with a coupon to send away for live butterflies. We sent it away and about 10 days later we had a sealed jar with 5 little caterpillars in it. They have their food and everything in their container so you just watch them grow. In about 7 days they climb to the top of the jar and form their chrysalis. After 2 days you move them (very stressful by the way for Chris) into the habitat and wait. Ours took exactly 7 days and all 5 caterpillars made their metamorphosis into butterflies. We have painted lady butterflies. Hannah is so excited to watch them. I haven't snapped any great pictures of them yet (this happened last night) but here are a few:
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